RLSA-2025:14135

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:14135
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:14135.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2025:14135
Upstream
Published
2025-09-08T14:19:01.104171Z
Modified
2025-09-08T15:03:16.836008Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: libarchive security update
Details

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

  • libarchive: Double free at archivereadformatrarseekdata() in archivereadsupportformat_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / libarchive

Package

Name
libarchive
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/libarchive?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:3.3.3-6.el8_10
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:14135.json"